Given that previous efforts to ensure greater equity in personal laws have not been fully successful in eastern African countries, any new legal initiatives must not repeat the mistakes of the past where law merely remains on the books as a legitimizing tool that reinforces or supports gender discrimination, instead of actively protecting and guarding the interests of both men and women. This report ...

"Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century brings together a collection of some of the finest genocide studies scholars in North America and Europe to examine gendered discourses, practices and experiences of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the 20th century. It includes chapters focusing on the genocide in Rwanda and Armenia, the Holocaust, and ethnic cleansing and genocide in the former Yugoslavia. ...

During the Italian occupation in the USSR, the soldiers of Italian armed forces often had relationships with Soviet women, opposed by the authorities for motives of politics and security. Some of the officers openly practiced concubinage, in contrast to the racsim expressed on that campaign. The authorities in situ also decided to open brothels fort he troops, filled with local women, in order to avoid ...

Contributions from a conference ... held in Warsaw 31 March-2 April 2011 with the topic of Dynamization of Gender Roles in Wartime: World War II and its Aftermath in Eastern Europe. 342 pages ; 23 cm

This book emphasizes the cultural history of eugenics in America as a continuing interaction with notions of gender and morality. Demonstrating that eugenic ideas were far more powerful in public discourse than other historians have indicated, Kline shows how eugenics could have seemed a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during the first half ...

"The handbook is a reference work of thirty-two essays jointly written by specialists in the history of military and war and experts in gender and women's history. The collection, covering four centuries from the Thirty Years' War to the present Wars of Globalization, investigates how gender contributed to the shaping of warfare and the military and was at the same time transformed by them. The essays ...

Psychology has had a number of things to say about black and colonised peoples. Beyond the Masks is a book which seeks to go beyond Franz Fanon's concept of black identity as a 'white mask', placing race and gender at the centre of our understanding of identity. Amina Mama argues that rather than simply internalising what psychological theory and dominant culture have to say about them, black women ...

This thesis explores the postwar reintegration strategies of young women who had forcibly become affiliated with one of the fighting factions during the ten years of civil war in Sierra Leone. Instead of conceptualizing reintegration as the result of policies, the author defines it as the dynamic process that revolves around the (re- )establishment of relations between the individual and social networks. ...

Dat de media een nefaste invloed kunnen hebben zal niemand ontkennen. Wanneer het echter over de genocide in Rwanda gaat (1994), blijkt dat de Westerse media (vnl. British Broadcasting Company) zich bij de beeldvorming ernstig vergaloppeerd hebben. De rol van vrouwen in het conflict werd als passief en ondergaand omschreven, maar de auteur van dit boek verzet zich tegen deze slachtofferrol en wil de ...

Subject: De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: In pursuit of greater France: visions of Empire among Musée Social reformers, 1894-1931 / door Janet R. Horne; "Special customs": paternity suits and citizenship in France and the colonies, 1870-1912 / door Jean Elisabeth Petersen; Redefining "Frenchness": citizenship, race regeneration, and imperial motherhood in France and West Africa, 1914-40 / door ...

During World War II, more than 12,000 male conscientious objectors seeking alternatives to military service entered Civilian Public Service to do forestry, soil conservation, or other "work of national importance." But this government-sponsored, church-supported program also attracted some 2,000 women - most of whom were part of Mennonite, Amish, Brethren, or Quaker families with deeply held antiwar ...

with appendixes: some statistics concerning this study